sauravt
I'm Saurav, a hands-on engineer with 10+ years building and shipping software. I'm looking for a senior or founding engineer role working on applied AI, voice systems, or backend infrastructure.
At Delfino AI (YC S22), I was CTO and built voice agents for healthcare operations: navigating IVRs, waiting on hold, speaking with insurance representatives, and returning structured information for eligibility, prior authorization, and claims workflows. That work involved deterministic execution paths, fallbacks, human handoffs, and debugging failures across calls and integrations.
Before that, I co-founded Likeo (acquired), where I optimized a virtual try-on pipeline to run 2x faster while reducing AWS GPU infrastructure costs by 10x. At xAGI Labs, I built 12+ production AI systems for startups, combining retrieval, model APIs, structured outputs, and external integrations.
I've also led an eight-engineer team and worked directly with founders on product and technical decisions. I can take ownership from backend design and implementation through model integration, evaluation, deployment, and production debugging.
If your team needs someone who can build AI features and own the systems around them, I'd be happy to talk.
I’m a hands-on AI engineer and technical founder with 10+ years of experience building production products. Most recently, I was CTO at Delfino AI (YC S22), where I built voice agents for healthcare workflows—navigating IVRs, waiting on hold, speaking with representatives, and returning structured answers.
Previously, through xAGI Labs, I built 12+ production AI systems for startups and growing teams. I’m comfortable taking an ambiguous idea from architecture and prototype through deployment, evaluation, and reliability work.
I’m personally looking for project-based or fractional work, particularly:
- 0-to-1 AI/LLM products - Voice agents and phone automation - RAG, tool-using agents, evals, and production reliability - Rapid prototypes that need to become dependable products - Technical architecture or hands-on fractional CTO support
If you have an AI product that needs an experienced builder—not just a demo—I’d be happy to talk. Short, well-scoped projects and longer engagements are both welcome.
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